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And then, suddenly, a dreadful possibility flashed through my lanced sideways at hi perplexedly, and I drew a deep breath of relief, for the terrible thought that had flashed across ht have had an accomplice

Yet surely it could not be! Surely no woman as beautiful as Mary Cavendish could be a murderess Yet beautiful women had been known to poison

And suddenly I remembered that first conversation at tea on the day of leam in her eyes as she had said that poison was a woitated she had been on that fatal Tuesday evening! Had Mrs Inglethorp discovered so between her and Bauerstein, and threatened to tell her husband? Was it to stop that denunciation that the crimatical conversation between Poirot and Evelyn Howard Was this what they had meant? Was this the monstrous possibility that Evelyn had tried not to believe?

Yes, it all fitted in

No wonder Miss Howard had suggested "hushing it up" Now I understood that unfinished sentence of hers: "Ereed with her Would not Mrs Inglethorp have preferred to go unavenged rather than have such terrible dishonour fall upon the na," said John suddenly, and the unexpected sound of his voicewhich makes me doubt if what you say can be true"

"What's that?" I asked, thankful that he had gone away from the subject of how the poison could have been introduced into the coco

"Why, the fact that Bauerstein demanded a post-mortem He needn't have done so Little Wilkins would have been quite content to let it go at heart disease"

"Yes," I said doubtfully "But we don't know Perhaps he thought it safer in the long run Soht have ordered exhu would have come out, then, and he would have been in an aard position, for no one would have believed that ait heart disease"

"Yes, that's possible," admitted John "Still," he added, "I'm blest if I can see what his motive could have been"

I tre And, remember, all this is in confidence"